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In a future world, a physicist's experiment to harness unlimited energy goes wrong. Chased by drones and soldiers, Will Porter must race through an imploding world and retrieve the Redivider box to save his family...and all of humanity!

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First thing you should know is that over half of the movie was shot in the first person perspective, like Hardcore Henry. This isn't a problem by itself, but be warned; If you want to watch someone play a really boring first-person-shooter, then watch Kill Switch. I never felt the main character was in any danger. The acting is terrible. All of the dialog from the main character, Will, during the first person perspective (80%) was obviously recorded separately. Just bad. I regret paying $10 to rent this and I regret losing 90 mins of my life.

Major issues: <Minor Spoilers beyond this point.>► I never felt the main character was in any danger.People are constantly shooting at him and constantly miss. He hides halfway behind a chair on an airplane from two guys with futuristic machine guns and doesn't get hit. Drones will just hover in his face letting him shoot them with ease. He gets a metal hunk stuck in his leg and it is pulled out with no screaming in pain and a robot just heals it up, good as new.► Out of order Plot didn't help the story.Some movies do it well, this didn't. No unknown information is revealed.► The acting is terrible.None of the characters really have a personality or reason for what they are doing. Why did his good-for-nothing sister spill water on her face so much? Should we care?► The augmented reality earpiece. (AKA: Video game HUD)This was wedged in for no reason. It served no purpose for the plot. Will was flagged as 'under arrest' at least 3 different times. If he could hide for a little bit he was not under arrest any more. The world has too many normal things going on for selective video game logic.

Wow, this had me on the edge of my seat! I'd never seen anything first person before, very interesting concept. Dan Stevens as Will and Charity Wakefield as Mia were great. The scenes between Will and Mia and Will and his nephew were so well done, a nice contrast to the chaos of the first person action. I do wish there had been more of this back story and also Will coming to work for Alterplex, just so we could have seen these actors more, and I think it would have helped the transition back and forth to the first-person narrative.

This was a great low-budget sci-fi movie. The premise is plausible and explained. The first person perspective (including HUD) aligned well with the setting. The special effects were impressive. I dismiss the bad reviews - there are plenty of bad movies out there. This is not one of them. (I stop watching if the acting is bad or the story is too weak).

This is actually based on a short film posted on Youtube in 2009 (search "what's in the box 2009" on YT) that has over 2.6 MM views and almost 5,000 comments - most of which are about a full movie release.

This isn't going to win any awards, but for the budget and the genre, this did it's job and hit the entertainment mark.

The future world, a physicist's experiment to harness unlimited energy goes wrong. Chased by drones and soldiers, Will Porter must race through an imploding world and retrieve the Redivider box to save his family - and all of humanity! This is the DVD description and it is kind. This is a confused and disjointed movie that flips all over the timelines, back and forth with no notice, much of this movie is shot in that third person shaky camera thing that I hate so much. I love Dan Stevens, I really do but, even he couldn't do anything to help this dreck. Let me make an admission, I had to fast forward a bunch. This was so much the same over and over. The same scenes all looking similar. This type of echo world movie could be good but not this one. Once again the scientists go crazy and do the things that they aren't supposed to do. Been there done that and not only that but been done better. Take a pass.

Awful! Don't waste your money. Dan Stevens was so good in Downton Abbey, now he's making "action" movies. None of them are very good, but this must have been made on a very low budget. Special effects seem amateurish and plot is thin. Regret paying for this movie.

So, you think it looks like a a video game?? Well, they stole the whole story from Half Life 2, one of the most famous video games of all times!!The vortex / portal? Looks EXACTLY like the one in the video game!The drones / helicopter thingies?? Ditto, an EXACT copy of those in Half Life 2. I wonder if they'll be sued by the creators of the video game for "borrowing" the while movie idea....

Go to Youtube and search for "Half Life 2 Episode 1" and see for yourself!!

I was surprised at how bad this movie was. I wanted very much to like it. I didn't. I didn't care about the characters or their world. The first person perspective just took the character we might have cared about, out of the picture. You can tell someone had a great idea and just didn't have the script to see it through. It was a disjointed mess.